180 Sunset Bar-Mykonos Greece

If you are planning a trip to Mykonos there are many places to catch the sunset. When I visited in the Spring of 2022, all the Pinterest posts, travel blogs, and trendy websites said to visit Sunset 180 bar. I made reservations online months in advance on their website (securing the area I wanted to sit in with my credit card as required) and waited anxiously for the day of my visit to arrive.

This is where our cab driver dropped us off. He claimed he could not go all the way down to the restaurant. It was just a short walk to the main entrance and we got some lovely photos going in so during the daytime it was not a big deal.

There are some really important things I want to share with you in this blog. The ambience of this place was absolutely stunning. It is your Instagram’s dream! I am an EATER so to me, the food was just ok. We paid over $200, and I left starving. We were two women traveling in a foreign country alone and we chose not to have international phone plans and relied on other people/Wi-Fi. Our overall experience here was just ok. In hindsight, we would have done things differently. Hopefully by reading this, your experience will be better.

Our trip was in mid-May, but I went online and booked our reservation about two months in advance. When you go online you can choose different areas to sit in, the Windmill ($100), Arch ($100), Bar ($70), Private Terrace, Mezzanine Terrace, Stairs ($70), Private Deck ($200 first row $150 second row $100 third row), Sound Hearth ($80), Main Terrace ($100), Terrace Deck ($150 first row $100 second row), Sunset Deck ($200 first row cushion $150 second row cushion sofa $100) or Upper Terrace. Each area has a designated “minimum spend” requirement per person.

We booked the Arch 1st row with a minimum spend requirement of $100 per person. I got a confirmation email and had to put in a credit card when doing my reservation to confirm by booking. If you do not show up for your reservation, or cancel 48 hours in advance, you will be charged 50% of the minimum spend per person.

Another shot of the place where the cab driver dropped us off before our reservation.

We made arrangements the morning of our reservation with the hotel concierge for transportation to the bar. We did not rent a car and we did not get international phone plans, and therefore relied on Wi-Fi and were not sure if the bar would have Wi-Fi. We were set to have a cab pick us up from our hotel and drop us off at the restaurant. Once the driver arrived, we got his card and he told us that he would personally come to collect us after dinner, just to have the restaurant call him with the number on his business card. Perfect. All sorted. Or so we thought.

He dropped us off just up the street from the restaurant at a church and we walked down a short path to the bar. There were some lovely photo ops along the way, so we took full advantage. It was still light outside as we purposefully made our reservation a little before sunset so we could get the full sunset experience, so we felt perfectly safe.

The seating area can finally be seen up to the far left.

We checked in at the host stand and were escorted to our table. I snapped photos of each area as we walked along. As we took our seats, the hostess kindly reminded us of the $100 minimum spend per person.

This is the first seating area we saw as we walked in.

The arch and the windmill. Later this evening we saw someone propose right in front of the arch. There was also a constant line in front of it for photos.

The views were beautiful. I mean the ambience was absolutely stunning. We could see the windmill, the sunset, the harbor, everything. This place was clearly a destination for people on vacation, and a special occasion place for any locals. There were bachelor/bachelorette parties, anniversaries, a couple that got engaged, birthday celebrations, and people celebrating their honeymoon.

At our table

View to the right looking out from our table.

The chairs were SUPER low and hard to get comfortable in while you were eating. If you were just sitting all the way back in them fine, but we were on the edge of our seats trying to look at everything, and then when the food came, we were balancing on our bums trying to eat and not kill our backs.

We could see more windmills in the distance.

Our waitress came by and went over the menus with us and once again reminded us of the $100 per person spend requirement. We settled in to take a look at our options. Their website describes the food as “delicious nibbles created from innovative techniques”.

Taking a look at the menu.

We were just at the end of “covid times” so we still carried our masks with us everywhere we went just in case. You can see from the photos that there is hand sanitizer on every table.

We ended up getting the Iconic, the Cosmopolitan, Thesaurus (with meat). As you can see, everything is small plate style. Nothing is a main dish. I knew immediately that I was going to leave hungry and should have eaten an actual meal before coming, or that we should have planned to do a late dinner after the sunset at the hotel or somewhere on the way home.

We also get the Epic and the Triumph from this side of the menu.

Click the link to take a look at their current full drink and food menu.

The bar area.

The table next to us.

Behind the bar they had a super cute little swing. So many areas to take photos.

This is still next to the bar and is a “level” higher than where we are sitting.

Here you can see different levels of seats. Some seats are actual cushions, some are tables, and some are the chairs up against the rock wall like ours.

They had live entertainment and apparently have bands and DJ’s regularly.

There is obviously not a bad seat in the entire place.

The swordfish.

The tuna.

The charcuterie board.

The Octopus.

The oyster with caviar.

The sun started dipping down closer and closer to the horizon and people got more settled in their seats to take it all in. We ate our “bites” and sipped our drinks. Our waitress brought over blankets as it started to get a little chilly.

As the sun went down and the lights from the bay came up, it was a truly beautiful transition.

We finished our snacks, paid our tab, and went to the hostess stand to call the cab to come collect us. Unfortunately, when the hostess called, he did not pick up. After a few minutes of panic, a supervisor called a different company and after about 10 minutes we were on our way back to the hotel.

If you are looking for a picturesque place to grab a small bite and a drink and to take in a sunset, this is definitely a place worth visiting. Plan to be here for at least an hour and a half to two hours and to pay at least $70 per person depending on where you sit. Have a strong plan to get there and back, have a camera (you will want to take ALL the photos), and eat before or after.

Where is a memorable place you have seen the sunset during your travels? Put it in the comments!